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Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
4.0

CW: death of a parent, death of a child, gunshots, blood, animal death & abuse, seizures, bullying, paranoia

This was a very thought-provoking and chilling read. I loved how the author explored grief through our main character, Junior who has lost his father and is seeing him appear in their house. I resonated so much with the lines about him saying his father just needed to turn solid. The hardest part of grief is coming to terms with death. The passage about Natives not believing in guardian angels really stuck with me.